Description
Features articles and reviews on the Ellington legacy, George Duvivier, Milt Hinton, John Coltrane, a bibliography of British jazz periodicals, an expanded review section, and a review essay on jazz autobiographies.
...a nifty portfolio of sensitive jazz photographs...the whole collection is skillfully edited and assembled...
...an excellent collection.
...an absorbing and varied compendium of satisfyingly specialised and often exhaustive studies.
..much to recommend it...All serious jazz fans will find the Annual Review of Jazz Studies books to be interesting and useful. Nothing else quite like them is available.
..quite the most interesting edition of the Annual Review so far published...can serve as a very useful forum.
Lewis Porter is a jazz pianist, composer, and author. He has served as professor of music at Rutgers University in Newark since 1986, and he is the university's founder and director of the Master's Program in Jazz History and Research since 1997.